Werewolf Histories [electronic resource] /
de Blécourt, Willem.editor.
Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. It covers the most important werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia to Estonia.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. The Differentiated Werewolf: An Introduction to Cluster Methodology; Willem de Ble;court2. Good to Think: Wolves and Wolf-men in the Graeco-Roman World; Richard Gordon3. Into the Wild: Old Norse Stories of Animal Men; Christa Agnes Tuczay4. Before the Werewolf Trials: Contextualising Shape Changers and Animal Identities in Medieval North-Western Europe; Aleksander Pluskowski Interlude: Wolf-Riding5. "What About Some Good Wether?" Witches and Werewolves in 16th Century Italy; Matteo Duni6. "Species", "Phantasia", "Raison": Werewolves and Shape-shifters in Demonological Literature; Johannes Dillinger7. The Judge's Lore? The Politico-Religious Concept of Metamorphose in the Peripheries of Western Europe; Rita Voltmer8. The Werewolf in the Popular Culture of Early Modern Germany; Rolf SchulteInterlude: The Shepherd of Wolves9. Estonian Werewolf History; Merili Metsvahi10. The Werewolf in Nineteenth-Century Denmark; Michèle Simonsen11. Dead Bodies and Transformations: Werewolves in Some South Slavic Folk Traditions; Maja Pasaric.
Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. It covers the most important werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia to Estonia.
Europe—History.
Religion—History.
Europe—History—476-1492.
Cultural studies.
Sociology.
European History.
History of Religion.
History of Medieval Europe.
Cultural Studies.
Sociology, general.